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May 10

Red Sox v Royals

A long time ago we bought Red Sox tickets. We felt lucky to have gotten in to the infamous “online waiting room” and to have been able to purchase tickets at face value. Little did we know that this game would fall during a week that was slightly crazed for us, what with the Celtics doing so well in the Playoffs and our Greg Laswell‘s tour coming through town the same week. I don’t know if it’s lucky or not that nothing fell on the same night. It might have been better had we been forced to make a decision and pare down the event list for the week.

Needless to say, we walked over to Fenway Saturday night and enjoyed a low key baseball game on a windy, but nice and temperate, evening.  Red Sox won (1-0).  Our tickets were SRO – we were worried that might be a bit a much after standing all night at the Celtics game the night before, but it worked out just fine.  We really don’t mind SRO at Fenway.  It’s enjoyable.



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May 10

Eastern Conference Finals CHAMPIONS, Game 6: Celtics v Magic

We didn’t originally plan to attend this game, but after watching the stinker of Game 4 at the Garden and the atrociousness of Game 5 from our couch – we wanted to be back at the Garden for Game 6 and be as loud as we could (who knows if it really helps), to feel like we did our part to help the Celtics.  But we did NOT want to see the C’s lose the series after going up 3-0.   Thankfully, we saw an awesome W (96-84).

Since these weren’t a part of our playoff package tickets we were in different seats.  They were up against the wall – and surprisingly awesome!  Our two seats were right at the end of the stair – no chairs in front of us – so we didn’t have people walking in front of us to get in or out of a row.  In addition, we were able to stand for the entire game (which was preferable for an exciting playoff game like this) and didn’t have to worry about blocking the view of people behind us.  It was awesome.

We only brought the phone camera this game – so the photos aren’t so great, but here is the view down our stairs:


The media crush as the Celtics win and the Eastern Conference Championship trophy is awarded (you can still see Gino in the first photo):



Jeannette’s new shirt for Ray Allen:


We were VERY EXCITED:


We went out and celebrated.  The evening ended in a park eating McD’s with a statue.


27
May 10

Laswell in Boston

Greg Laswell is in Boston! He comes pretty often, but he’s playing in an awesome venue again. (We don’t like the Berklee Red place very much… Seems like worship band at the Point Loma Cafe.) Yay for Laswell at a proper venue! Yay for Paradise Rock Club!


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May 10

Eastern Conference Finals, Game 4: Celtics v Magic



Overtime loss, 96-92. We played terrible, they played great.

This was the loudest we have EVER heard the Garden.  The crowd was amazing tonight.  We’re going to leave it at that.  Just two more shots:  The guys in green right before tip off and Ray at halftime.



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May 10

Wes Welker at ECF Game 3

Somebody got video! YAY!